Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Regardless, renewable energy requires land, and land for renewables creates lots of conflicts, with landowners, local governments, environmentalists, and competing development interests. And the volume of renewable energy required requires significant new transmission, which creates even more land use conflict.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. and Australia.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

On the ground, this means communities, local, state and the federal government, territories and tribes have less time to prepare for the next event and less time to respond after an event. And the damages to transmission and distribution systems can be costly. According to FEMA’s latest report , the DRF could be more than $6.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.” Importantly, the agency affirmed that affordable technologies exist to help slaughterhouses meet the proposed standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. While Citi touts its $1 trillion Sustainable Finance by 2030 Goal, that figure includes the bank’s full range of environmental, social, and governance investments.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The grid operator PJM, which covers the region from Illinois to Virginia, put these reliability rules and penalties into place in 2016 but this is the first full use of them. The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. First, a bit more context.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Vulnerability is higher in high-poverty areas, in countries with poor government, and in farming and fishing communities that are more exposed to climate change. Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

Our analysis found that sustainable nutrition science is severely underfunded by the federal government—which makes sense since it is missing from the REE’s mission and vision. And it’s about time.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2016, the Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing Collaborative (LA ROSAH) has been working to advance parks and affordable housing projects and educate stakeholders and decision makers about the benefits of joint development. Wilmington Townhomes development with tot lot. Photo by Abode Communities.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. That raises real questions about whether legalization in California can deliver on the promises of environmental protection that were made to the voters in 2016.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. What’s next for climate and cultural rights? It’s to be expected (and hoped) that we will soon see many more of these types of cases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Transportation has been the biggest contributor to climate change in the US since 2016, and its emissions are only projected to increase in the future without significant changes. Public transit can provide another way of getting around that is more accessible to all and reduces transportation emissions. Are we there yet?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As usual, most of the headlines will also focus on the Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) which was approved word by word by the governments over the last two weeks (full disclosure, I was advising the US delegation), but the full report will be worth dipping into over the next few months (there is a lot there to digest!). 1, SPM, AR5.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It tracks government attempts torestrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.Read moreabout the tracker andrelated resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But other localities, such as Austin, TX , and Miami-Dade County, FL —have been barred by their state governments from enacting local protections. At the local level, a few localities—including Phoenix , Tucson , and Pima County , Arizona—have passed ordinances protecting city or county workers. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2016 Taylor was awarded the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize, the state’s top honor for grassroots activists, for her meticulous research on CAFOs, and for managing ECCSCM’s water quality monitoring program, which has 56 sampling sites across the county. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. The British government orders water companies to create contingency plans in the case of water shortages. “We billion gallons) of water from state government as part of a massive water infrastructure project. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

The agency determined the chemical’s potency back in 2016–finding that it was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood–but it took a recent lawsuit by Earthjustice for the agency to act. Workers at some of the 96 commercial sterilizers around the country have a 1 in 10 cancer risk based on the EPA’s exposure model.

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Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2024

In 2016, former ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda claimed the court would focus on ecological damage and illegal exploitation of natural resources, yet little resulted from this claim. International criminal law can also hold individuals, including government officials, accountable for actions that result in significant environmental harm.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

government’s response to forever chemicals in drinking water. The previous advisory level, set in 2016, was 70 parts per trillion for the two chemicals combined — that’s more than 10,000 times higher than the new level just for PFOA. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on the U.S. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Our brief speaks in particular to the important role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide, and the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the State’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, could have on their ability to pass ambitious laws to address climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when over 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. They have more data and sharper insights….and

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MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The result is that nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. The most recent review came in December 2016. Getting nitrates out of groundwater will not be easy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

In our analysis , we linked Californians’ survey-reported personal experiences of supply impacts and concern about future supply reliability with their recent exposure to extreme event hazards (2016–2021) and projections of future climate hazards (2035–2064).

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – More than 5,000 people and a coalition of conservation groups are calling on the federal government to finally take action after waiting over six years to protect monarch butterflies. Since 2016, monarch butterflies have been in legal limbo in Canada.

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